Hi, I'm about to convert my 3 * 1 TB raidz to a 5 * 1 TB raidz. Since raidz can't be grown like that I have to find some place to move the data to temporarily while I reformat the raidz. However, I'm short on disk space (which is why I'm adding 2 new disks).
So, is it possible to create a 5 * 1 TB raidz with 4 disks (i.e., with one disk offline)? In that case I could use one of the 1 TB disks as temporary storage. (I would first move 1 TB of data from the old raidz to one of the new disks, then delete the old raidz and create the new 5-way raidz with 4 disks, then copy the 1 TB of data from the 5th disk to the new raidz and finally add the 5th disk to the raidz.) Cheers, Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
